Quotes by Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Honesty

Trust

Truth

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Life

Thinking

Time

Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There’s hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master, And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe, We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere, The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.

Dream

Men

Years

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Failure

Running

Winning

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Easy

Saving

Winning

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Climbing

Inspirational

Success

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Wisest

Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.

Believe

Cheer

Fighting

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

Eye

Goats

May

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Long

Song

Wine

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Being Strong

Believe

Belly

Book

Bows

Breaths

Cheer

Children

Climbing

Criticism

Dark

Debt

Doubt

Dream

Easy

Eye

Failure

Fate

Fighting

Fire

Forgiving

France

Goats

Grief

Grit

Healing

Heart

Heaven

Honesty

Inspirational

Intense

Kindness

Knows

Law

Life

Littles

Lonely

Long

Looks

Lying

May

Mean

Men

Military

Mother

Music

Night

Old Year

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Quotes by Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead, In the glare of the truth at last.

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer.

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

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